Alcohol and the Community
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 22 September 2009
- 05 March 1998
- ISBN:
- 9780511526787
- 9780521591874
- 9780521035040
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.446kg, 198 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.307kg, 200 Pages
- Subjects:
- Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, Medicine, Sociology of Science and Medicine, Psychiatry, Sociology
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- Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience, Medicine, Sociology of Science and Medicine, Psychiatry, Sociology
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Book description
An individual's decision to use alcohol and the frequency, quantity and situation of such use are the result of a combination of biological and social factors. Drinking is not only a personal choice, but also a matter of custom and social behaviour, and is influenced by access and economic factors including levels of disposable income and cost of alcoholic beverages. Until prevention efforts cease to focus narrowly on the individual and begin to adopt broader community perspectives on alcohol problems and strategies to reduce them, these efforts will fail. This book, first published in 1998, challenges the current implicit models used in alcohol problem prevention and demonstrates an ecological perspective of the community as a complex adaptive system composed of interacting subsystems, an appreciation and understanding of which offers an alternative approach to the prevention of alcohol dependence and alcohol-related problems.
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‘Anyone with an interest in alcohol policy of prevention will be enriched by reading this monograph. Libraries should look out for the IRMA series.’
Source: Addiction Biology
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